Senior Management Accountant / Finance Business Partner

Reporting to the National Finance Manager, your key deliverables will be providing management with insights on performance & profitability and assisting in the making of strategic business decisions and business process improvements. Further to this your responsibilities will include:

• Analyse, review and report on the financial performance and position of specified branches/regions on a monthly and annual basis against budgets.
• Participate in complex projects in cross functional teams.
• Facilitating activities such as; cost reduction and process efficiency opportunities, budgeting, forecasting, planning and project evaluations.
• Pursuing value creating business opportunities as front line commercial support, and improving the sustainable competitive advantage of the organisation.
• Investigate and explain variances, trends and anomalies including investigations of sales, margins, productivity, labour and material variances, inventory, direct and indirect costs etc.
• Analyse & report on variances to budgets, history and forecast
• Prepare & distribute variance analysis & snapshot reporting
• Liaise with Branch Managers, Area Business Managers and General Managers, and assist with achieving regional profitability and growth targets.
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations in accordance with company policy
• Carry out analysis of system processes relating to assigned regions
• Regional budget preparation and analysis
• Preparation of branch and regional forecasts
• Assist with both internal and external audits as required.
• Other duties, projects and responsibilities as assigned from time to time.